If you've got 12 minutes to spare, www.Wonderlic.com might have the answers....and....questions similar to those used to test the nation's best college football players.
Michael Callans, president of Wonderlic Consulting, said the company hopes to have a sample on its Web site (www.Wonderlic.com) before the NFL draft begins April 29. "Obviously, it won't be the same form that the NFL is using, but it will give you an equivalent score," said Callans.
Founded in 1937, Wonderlic Consulting has roughly 10,000 clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to dental offices with two or three employees. The test the NFL prospects began taking in the 1970s, known as the Wonderlic Personnel Test, has been administered more than 130 million times. It consists of 50 questions with a 12-minute time limit and a possible high score of 50.
Some questions are easy, requiring only the most basic knowledge to answer. Some require more logic, academic skill and reasoning. "In reality, we probably sell about 3,000 tests to the NFL a year for this purpose, and that's really on the high side," Callans said. "The combine purchases about 400 a year, and then individual teams maybe buy some for their own purposes. But this test itself, we sell 3 million of them a year."
Nobody is perfect---except for former Cincinnati Bengals punter Pat McInally, believed to be the only player to score a 50 (he's a Harvard graduate). The test does carry some weight. How much depends on the team or the coach.
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Source: The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 16, 2006